Provincial Highway 16 (Taiwan)

Provincial Highway 16
台だい16線せん
Route information
Maintained by Directorate General of Highways
Length	41.349 km (25.693 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Prov 3 in Mingjian, Nantou
East end	Xinyi, Nantou
Location
Country	Taiwan
Highway system
Highway system in Taiwan
← Prov 15 → Prov 17

Provincial Highway 16 (Chinese: 台だい16線せん) is an East-West highway from Mingjian to Xinyi in Nantou County, Taiwan. The total length of the highway is 41.349 km. A plan to extend the highway for another 96.2 km which will pass through the Central Range was abandoned due to environmental issues and difficulty of construction.

Route Description

The highway begins at the intersection with PH 3 in Mingjian. It then continues eastbound towards downtown Jiji and Shuili. In Shuili the highway has a brief concurrency with PH 21 until the latter continues in north-south direction. After leaving Shuili, the highway turns into a mountainous 1-lane road all the way towards its terminus in the aboriginal township of Xinyi, in front of Sunhai Bridge (孫まご海うみ橋きょう), which was destroyed by Typhoon Sinlaku in 2008. The section in Xinyi is closed daily from 5:30 pm to 7:00 am the next day.

The original plan of the highway was to continue from Xinyi all the way to Fenglin, Hualien, via the Danda Forest Road (丹たん大林おおばやし道みち), Qicai Lake Trail (七彩しちさい湖みずうみ登山とざん步道ほどう), and Wanrong Forest Road (萬まん榮さかえ林道りんどう). But due to the difficulty of construction, only a short 2.2 km segment between Fenglin and Wanrong was built. In 2014 this segment of the highway was decommissioned.

See also

• Highway system in Taiwan